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May 15: Saint Caleb

Saint Caleb was known as Elesbaan and was the sixth century king of Ethiopia when Christians living in the Arabian peninsula were being attacked. Byzantine emperors Justin I and Justinian supported Elesbaan when he led his soldiers in battle to protect the Christians living there. Later in his life, Elesbaan abdicated his throne, took the […]

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May 14: Saint Erembert

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Saint Erembert (d. c. 672) was a Benedictine monk when the king of France nominated him as bishop of Toulouse. One event in his life has survived over the centuries. He had […]

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May 13: Saint Servatius

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Saint Servatius lived in the fourth century and became the bishop of Tongres in modern Belgium. When Saint Athanasius, the famous archbishop who spoke out against the Arian heresy, was banished, Servatius […]

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May 12: Blessed Jane of Portugal

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Blessed Jane (d. 1490) was a princess of Portugal at her birth, and when her brother and mother died, she seemed to be the likely heir to her father’s throne. Despite her […]

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May 11: Saint Gengulf

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Saint Gengulf (d. 760) was a trusted knight serving under Pepin the Short (who was at the time Mayor of the Palace but later became King of France). When Gengulf discovered that […]

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May 10: Blessed Beatrice of Este

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Blessed Beatrice (d. 1226) was born in a castle in d’Este, Italy. But despite the wealth and power of her noble family, her childhood was full of losses: her mother died when […]

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May 9: Blessed Stefan Grelewski

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Blessed Stefan Grelewski (1899-1941) was born in Poland. An outstanding priest, he also earned a doctorate in canon law, wrote and translated works from French and German into Polish, founded a Catholic […]

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May 8: Saint Gibrian

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. An old tradition says that seven brothers and three sisters, all members of the same family, left Ireland and settled in France in the late fifth century. They lived as solitaries, though […]

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May 7: Blessed Albert of Bergamo

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Blessed Albert was born at Villa d’Ogna, Italy, into a devout family of farmers in the thirteenth century. He married, became a farmer, and also became a tertiary in the Dominican order. […]

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May 6: Blesseds Edward Jones and Antony Middleton

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. In the sixteenth century, it was illegal to be Catholic and deadly to be a Catholic priest. Edward Jones was born in Wales; Antony Middleton was born in Yorkshire. They both traveled […]

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May 5: Saint Angelo of Siciliy

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. As is sometimes the case, accurate details about the life of this saint are hard to disentangle from later, embroidered accounts. Saint Angelo (d. 1220) was one of the earliest members of […]

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May 4: Blessed Michael Giedroyc

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Blessed Michael Giedroyc (d. 1485) was the only son of noble parents in Lithuania. He suffered all his life from poor health, dwarfism, and an accident that deprived him of the use […]

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May 3: Saint Juvenal of Narni

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. There are have been several saints named “Juvenal”; this Saint Juvenal was bishop of the city of Narni in Italy and died around the year 376. He was a priest of the […]

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May 2: Saint Wiborada

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Saint Wiborada (d. 926) was born in Klingnau, Switzerland, into a noble family. By the time her brother became a priest, their parents had died, so Wiborada joined him, cared for him, […]

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May 1: Saint Amator of Auxerre

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. A biography of Saint Amator (344-418) written more than a century after his death is our best source of information about the saint. Setting aside some of the extraordinary details in that […]

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April 30: Saint Wolfhard of Verona

If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Saint Wolfhard (d. 1127) was a German maker of saddles and other equipment for horses when he traveled to Verona and decided to settle there. In time, his fellow citizens noticed that […]

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